But when he moved into his new class the following week, I wondered if we had made the right decision. For one, I didn’t realize at the time that whereas there had been a full-time teacher’s helper in TK, there was no such person — at all — in Kindergarten. The class was bigger, too. So he moved from a class of 18 with two adults present, to a class of 25 with just one adult. It’s not tragic, but it’s certainly not to the benefit of the students. Anyway, after the initial switch,\u00a0when he asked me sadly why his old TK teacher and his TK classmates wouldn’t be joining him in his new Kindergarten class, he adjusted pretty well and now seems to be doing just fine. He enjoys going, and likes telling me about what he did in class. There are some social aspects of his experience that I’m keeping an eye on (perhaps I’ll elaborate on that at another time), but he seems to mostly be doing ok with that, too. There’s a girl in his new class whom he plays with often and he is invited to her upcoming birthday party, where “pony rides” are promised. “Ooooh, I sure do want a pony ride,” he said to me when I told him about it. Truthfully, I have a very hard time imagining Emrick agreeing to mount a pony, but I have a very easy<\/em> time imagining him being too scared to do it. We’ll see!<\/p>\n What else is our belated birthday boy up to? Well, he’s on a solar system kick now. He knows a whole lot of stuff that I don’t know\/don’t remember, like the names of the other dwarf planets in our solar system besides Pluto (there are others?) as well as the names of some of Jupiter’s moons. He’s also a bit obsessed with the earth’s layers, asking me every time he plays in the yard if he is standing on the earth’s crust, and when he moves to concrete asking me if he is\u00a0still<\/em> standing on the earth’s crust.<\/p>\n He’s also a master of remembering past experiences and suddenly mentioning them out of nowhere. Like tonight when I tucked him in he asked, “Mommy, who was that fourteen-year-old girl who came to visit us in Florida a long, long time ago?”<\/p>\n “You mean Sinead?” I asked. Clark and Sinead came down for a couple of days when we were visiting Mom and Dad in July.<\/p>\n “That’s right. Sinead,” he grinned.<\/p>\n “You had a lot of fun playing with her, didn’t you?”<\/p>\n “Yeah. She’s crazy like I’m<\/em> crazy,” he said.<\/p>\n Emrick is 39 inches tall and weighs about 35 pounds. My BABY is in Kindergarten, and he is still a pookie.<\/p>\n
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